By Ben Kerrigan-
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is promoting the advantages of two vaccinations to present a “real opportunity to open up travel” this summer for those who have had two jabs.
His promotion follows the announcement from Matt Hancock earlier in the week that he was closely considering making exceptions for quarantine for holiday makers who have been vaccinated twice. The credibility of the suggested requirements is on trial by The Eye Of Media.Com after it was revealed early in the week that Matt Hancock for three days sat on relevant documents suggesting that the vaccine had proved a success against the variant, disclosing this two the prime minister in the very last hours before a meeting deciding to open up the economy.
Johnson was responding to a question about European holidays , after German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested all EU countries should make British travelers quarantine on arrival to slow the spread of the Delta variant.
Ms Merkel told Germany’s parliament: “In our country, if you come from Great Britain, you have to go into quarantine – and that’s not the case in every European country, and that’s what I would like to see.”
Mr Johnson said: “The most important thing is that we think double jabs do offer a good way forward, we think they offer the hope of travel this summer.
“More than 60% of our population have now had two jabs, I think 83% have had one jab, we’re really getting through it now. The crucial thing is, come forward and get your second jab,” he said.
He added that he wasn’t going to claim the summer would be like any other. “I don’t want to cast a pall over things but, as I said the other day, it will be different.”
Countries on the red list are considered the highest risk, and travel from those nations is more strictly limited.
On Wednesday, Mr Shapps told the BBC: “If you’ve been double vaccinated then of course we need to look at what the science says. We’ve said that Monday is the point to review that data, so we are coming up to having a look at it.
“We’re looking at it in the next few days and I’ll have more to say.”
There is no unified version of what the science says in relation to vaccinations, and Mr Shapps comments are based on recommendations from Mr. Hancock, whose credibility is seriously in question at this point.
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